The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.

Charles and the Duke of Buckingham, James's favourite and a man who had great influence over the prince, together travelled incognito to Spain in 1623 in an attempt to reach agreement on the long-pending Spanish Match.

At the behest of Charles and Buckingham, James assented to the impeachment of the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, by the House of Commons, who quickly fell in much the same manner as Bacon had.

A famous example of this situation was The Revd Sir Derek Pattinson, who was ordained just a year after he was appointed Knight Bachelor, apparently somewhat to the consternation of officials at Buckingham Palace.

To support herself and Buckingham, who wrote music while recovering from mononucleosis, Nicks worked a variety of jobs, which included waiting tables and a stint cleaning engineer / producer Keith Olsen's house, where Nicks and Buckingham lived for a time.

Nicks and Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac on December 31, 1974, after Keith Olsen played their track " Frozen Love " for drummer Mick Fleetwood, who had come to Studio City in California, in search of a studio to record Fleetwood Mac's next album.

The five principal suspects are King Richard, his erstwhile ally Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham ; Richard's servant James Tyrrell, and Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry Tudor, who defeated Richard at Bosworth Field and took the throne as Henry VII.

Jones, who was awarded an OBE in 1999, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006 at Buckingham Palace for his services to music.

The new stadium, the Falmer Stadium, was built by The Buckingham Group, who also built the MK Dons stadium.

One of his final public appearances came on 29 April 2002, when at the age of 90 he sat alongside the then prime minister Tony Blair and the three other surviving former prime ministers at the time at Buckingham Palace for a dinner which formed part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, alongside his daughter Margaret, Baroness Jay, who had served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1998 to 2001.

Anne reacted very differently to the two powerful favourites who dominated the second half of her husband's English reign, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and George Villiers, the future Duke of Buckingham.

However, if the princes were not already dead by the end of 1483, this of course removes any possibility that Buckingham, who was executed on 2 November 1483, could have murdered them.

It was in December 1983 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Trudeau had put forward Sauvé's name to Buckingham Palace as his recommendation on who should succeed Edward Schreyer as the Queen's representative.

The Earl of Holland who, it was said, " had better faculty at public address than he had with a sword ," joined the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Peterborough in addressing the principal residents and townsfolk of St Neots.

* Buckingham's paternal grandfather was Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who was the grandson and senior descendant of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III.

Reacting to the change in the public mood, Buckingham, who had learned of it during his trip to the Republic the previous year, began to leak the Dover Treaty to many fellow politicians and Arlington soon followed.

Raymond Buckingham, a singer who ran a voice school in Manhattan, was recruited into Scientology by one of his pupils.

* Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon, mistress of Henry VIII who was prosecuted for adultery with his friend, William Compton ; also sister of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham

The fortress later passed to the earls of Stafford, who were to become the unlucky dukes of Buckingham during the Wars of the Roses.

John Finch, the Speaker of the House of Commons, announced that he had been commanded to interrupt any Member of Parliament who should insult or cast aspersion on a Minister of State, such as the Duke of Buckingham.

His eldest son, an officer in the army, was killed in a duel ; and his second son, Charles, who was destined for the ministry, left Trinity College and became companion and secretary to the duke of Buckingham, at whose house he died.

When Richard denies Buckingham a promised land grant, Buckingham turns against Richard and defects to the side of Henry, Earl of Richmond, who is currently in exile.

In May 2011 the Mayor, Boris Johnson raised the issue with the President of the United States, Barack Obama, who was fined £ 120 after driving through London in the Presidential state car without paying the toll during a state visit to Buckingham Palace.

After Fritz disbanded in 1972, Nicks and Buckingham continued to write and record as a duo, producing demo tapes at the coffee plant belonging to Buckingham's father Morris.

Buckingham Palace issued a press release on the day of the decree absolute of divorce was issued, announcing Diana's change of title, but made it clear Diana continued to be a British princess.

He entered Parliament in 1741 as member for Buckingham, and continued to represent that borough for the next twenty-nine years until his death.

In the Lords, the trustees of the young Earl of Shrewsbury complained that Buckingham publicly continued his affair with the Countess, and that a son of theirs had been buried in Westminster Abbey with the title of Earl of Coventry ; Buckingham and the countess were required to apologize and give security for £ 10, 000 not to cohabit together again.

Buckingham continued his journalistic ventures on his return to England, and started the Oriental Herald and Colonial Review ( 1824-9 ) and the Athenaeum ( 1828 ) which was not a success in his hands, Buckingham selling to John Sterling after a few weeks.

Charles ordered Buckingham, Salisbury, and Wharton released from the Tower shortly thereafter, but Shaftesbury continued to refuse to apologize.

George III had purchased Buckingham Housethe predecessor to Buckingham Palacefor his queen back in 1762, and St James ' continued to decline in importance in the first half of the 19th century.

In 1628 he petitioned the king's favourite the Duke of Buckingham to forward a ‘ Proposition of profitt and honor ’ to the king which set out the need to encourage continued colonization of Newfoundland, and which specifically mentioned a plan to build a settlement to be called ' Carolinople ' ( i. e. " Charles's Town ").

Buckingham was not re-elected as mayor in 2000, but continued to serve as a councillor.

It is assumed he concentrated on his legal career in the 1420s, where there are few records of his activities, but in 1430 he was appointed as a councillor to Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and continued to receive a salary until at least 1447.

The French refused battle so Buckingham forces continued a chevauchée and in November laid siege to Nantes.

He showed less subservience than Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham, and his resistance to the latter's pretensions to the office of Lord High Constable greatly incensed the duke.

Connecticut Governor William Buckingham, who was from nearby Lebanon, used his Norwich home as a de facto office during the conflict.

During the predominance of the Whigs between 1705 and 1710, Buckingham was deprived of his office as Lord Privy Seal, but in 1710 he was made Lord Steward, and in 1711 Lord President of the Council.

After that period he held no public office, except that he was one of the presidential electors in the canvass of 1860, and by appointment of Governor William Alfred Buckingham was a delegate to the Peace Convention which met in Washington, in 1861, by request of the State of Virginia.

The remainder were reorganised as the Office of the Duke of Edinburgh, with Browning as treasurer, the head of the office, moving into a new and larger office at Buckingham Palace.

When Zouche resigned his office of lord warden to the Duke of Buckingham, the Duke, upon Lord Zouch's recommendation, made Nicholas his secretary for the business of the Cinque ports on 9 December 1624.

This is done by applying to Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, or to the Governor-General's office in the other Commonwealth realms.

Although he only held the household office of Master of the Horse, with responsibility for overseeing the King's travel arrangements, Buckingham was a long and close associate of King Charles II, having been practically raised together since children, during the close association of their fathers, Charles I and the first Duke of Buckingham, a relationship they consciously compared themselves to in adulthood, and might have replicated had the younger Buckingham possessed the skills of his father.

Sir William Coventry, the Secretary to the Admiralty, resigned from office following a duel challenge from the Duke of Buckingham, and re-emerged in the House of Commons at the head of a group of MPs known as the " Country Party ", which loudly opposed the Cabal and its policies.

From 1924, the organization maintained an office next to Buckingham Palace.

On 1 July 1984 users could send a pre-formatted ' Happy Birthday ' email to Princess Diana via Prince Philip, in whose name the Buckingham Palace press office telephone number had been registered as a Prestel user.

* The Doctor says that the Duke of Buckingham is also the Prime Minister, an office which did not exist yet.

He has an office at Buckingham Palace and an office at the Ministry of Defence in the Main Building, Whitehall.

The actual work of the office is undertaken by the Sub-Almoner, who is also the Deputy Clerk of the Closet of the Ecclesiastical Household, Sub-dean of the Chapel Royal, and Domestic Chaplain at Buckingham Palace.

As was his usual practice, from his office in Buckingham Street and in the course of many site visits, Burges oversaw all aspects of the design, including the statuary, the stained glass and the furniture, charging 10 % rather than his usual 5 %, owing to the high level of his personal involvement.